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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Pay & Sit Park Bench Is A Libertarian Dream
Whenever we write about investing in bike lanes or sharing the road, drive-by commenters invariably complain that they are paying road taxes and they will share the road when cyclists and pedestrians contribute. Let's ignore the fact that cyclists and pedestrians subsidize drivers since road taxes only cover a small portion of the cost of maintaining our highways and roads, and suggest that in...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
U.S. Court Rules Consumers Never Have the Right to Copy DVD Movies
Making one copy is stealing one copy, says MPAA This week a landmark verdict was handed down to RealNetworks with deep implications for fair use and personal property in America. The ruling wasn't about filesharing, piracy, or malicious computer use. Rather, it was fight over whether users should be able to make copies of digital content that they legal own. And in a precedent-setting...
Is this woman really 157 years old?
This photograph taken on June 1, 2010 shows Turinah, the Indonesian woman believed to be 157-years-old, chopping onions at home in a village in South Sumatra.Officials disccovered the woman during a national census and they believe Turinah's claim to have been born in 1853. Which means she was born before the World Wars, much before the aeroplane, telephone, cars, televison were invented.FULL...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
CHEAP: $70 Blu-ray Disc Player Hits Target
Remember when Blu-ray Disc players were so expensive that even the PlayStation 3 at its $600 launch price was considered a bargain? I do. And how the world has changed now that consumers can pick up a Blu-ray Disc player for the same price as a collector's edition of a game for that PS3. Engadget reports that Target is now selling a Philips BDP5010 Blu-ray Disc player for $69.98 that features...
Opera 10.50 Web browser : The fastest browser on Earth
New features Better integration with the Windows operating system Windows 7: Aero GlassAero PeekJump Lists Opera Carakan JavaScript engine Cross-platform bytecode interpreter for a new register-based instruction setInternal object model with automatic classification and inline property cachingMachine code generation (JIT compiler)Divided garbage collection heap: automatically traverses the memory of active heapsCaching of compiled programsReduced memory usageAdditional Carakan...
Kingston 2400MHz DDR3 'World's Fastest Memory'
Kingston today announced it has developed what it claims is the fastest Intel-certified memory in the world. How fast, you ask? 2400 MHz. Kingston's speedy HyperX dual-channel DDR3 memory kit (given the charming model name KHX2400C9D3T1K2/4GX) has Intel' XMP certification on the Core i7 platform. Those who like to tweak their memory will like to know that the 2400 MHz kit runs at 9-11-9-27-2...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Girl killed in Wii Remote mix-up
A girl has been killed after picking up a loaded gun, apparently mistaking it for a Wii Remote gun-style controller.Three year-old Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan from Wilson County Tennessee died from a single self-inflicted shot to the abdomen from a .380 calibre semi-automatic pistol. The loaded firearm had been left on the coffee table in the living room of the girl’s house, after her stepfather...
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The FBI Sucks at Photoshop [PIC]
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This week, the FBI released a “digitally-altered” image showing what Osama Bin Laden possibly looks like now that he’s older.While the FBI claims to have used “cutting-edge” technology to create the image, a Spanish politician has noticed that the poster is a modified version of his campaign photo — he now finds his face in America’s most wanted list.While on the surface it’s an amusing misstep by...
A 570 megapixel camera will launch next year to prove the existence of Dark Energy.
Here's a small disclaimer: the 570 megapixel camera currently under construction isn't exactly small, and it won't end up on Walmart shelves anytime soon. Rather than replace the aging Hubble telescope due to hit retirement in 2014 (the James Webb Space Telescope will actually have seat), this $35 million dollar camera will focus its 74 CCD sensors on dark energy.Called the Dark Energy Camera, this...
The Mighty King Falls – PS3 Hacked
Hi ,This has been a great month for me , good news and good events have been pouring from all around . To add to a list of great events that occurred this month is the recent news that PS3 has been hacked .For starters , PS3 is the most powerful and most secure gaming console of this time! GeoHot(George Hotz ) , a 17 year who was the person who was responsible for the hacking of iPhone has now once...
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